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Who Will Manage Your FB Account After You Die? Getty Images/Chris Jackson Facebook has introduced a new feature allowing users to designate a "legacy contact" who will serve as their online personal representative after they die, with the ability to manage their account and take a limited number of actions. After someone dies, their legacy heir will be able to manage their profile, including the ability to pin a post to the top of their timeline page. The legacy contact also will be able to change the deceased person's profile picture and cover photo, and to accept or reject new friend requests on their behalf. In a February 2015 announcementdescribing the new legacy contact feature, Facebook said its previous policy had been simply to freeze a dead person's account or "memorialize" it in the state at which it appeared right before they died. " By talking to people who have experienced loss," Facebook staffers wrote in the
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